Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Associate Staff - Embedded Systems Engineer

Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or relevant technical field plus 2 years of experience, or a Bachelor's Degree with 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Experience with decomposing processing chains into development modules.
  • Proficiency in synthesizable VHDL, Verilog, and/or SystemVerilog.
  • Ability to implement FPGA designs, including constraint file creation.
  • Experience in testing/debugging firmware in simulation and hardware environments.
  • Familiarity with digital interfaces such as SPI, PCIe, and Gigabit Ethernet.
  • Laboratory experience at the circuit card assembly level.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop embedded systems for innovative space applications.
  • Integrate hardware and software components in multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Solve complex technical challenges independently.
  • Conduct laboratory and field testing to enhance system performance.
  • Prepare and deliver presentations to community and sponsors as needed.
  • Travel to support field exercises and events.
  • Maintain a safe and collaborative working environment.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans.
  • MIT-funded pension.
  • Matching 401K plan.
  • Paid leave including vacation, sick, and parental leave.
  • Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs.
  • Access to mentorship programs.
  • Variety of work-life balance options.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Group 94, Electronics for Contested Space, is seeking an embedded systems engineer to design, develop and field embedded systems to support novel space applications. The successful candidate will be able to contribute to multi-disciplinary teams executing advanced research and independently solve technical challenges. Occasional travel to support field exercises, presentations to sponsors and the community, and other events may be required.

Applicants must have significant coursework and/or experience in at least one of the following areas: digital (FPGA-based) circuits, microcontroller design and/or embedded systems. Previous experience with runtime optimization, system architecture design, and integration of hardware and software is desirable. Experience with laboratory/field test equipment (spectrum analyzers, digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.) is desirable.

Requirements
  • A Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, computer engineering or another relevant technical field with 2 years of experience.
    • In lieu of a Master's degree, a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and at least 3 years of relevant experience will be considered
  • Experience decomposing processing chains into component modules for development
  • Experience developing synthesizable VHDL, Verilog, and/or SystemVerilog
  • Experience implementing FPGA designs in hardware, including the creation of constraint files
  • Experience testing and debugging firmware designs in both simulation and in hardware
  • Experience implementing and integrating with digital interfaces, such as SPI, PCIe and Gigabit Ethernet
  • Laboratory experience, including interface debugging and verification, at the circuit card assembly level
  • Digital signal processing experience in either analysis and/or implementation
  • Demonstrable ability to:
    • Work responsibly and safely in laboratory and assembly environments
    • Develop respectful, productive working relationships
    • Communicate clearly, precisely, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
    • Solve broad and/or complex technical or engineering problems
    • Learn and apply advanced technical knowledge quickly and proficiently


Desired Skills
  • Active Top Secret Security Clearance highly desired
  • Expertise in computer architecture, particularly with respect to making trades between bare-metal, or real-time operating systems
  • Ability to operate in a Linux development environment
  • Familiarity with scripting and task automation leveraging Python, bash, TCL or perl
  • Familiarity with MATLAB, C/C++, Python or other scientific programming languages
  • Experience working with modern development best practices, including use of revision control
  • Hardware design experience, including schematic capture, layout, routing and initial bring up

Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $116,400-$140,000
Experienced Hiring Range: $116,400-$182,200

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • MIT-funded pension
  • Matching 401K
  • Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
  • Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
  • Mentorship programs
  • A range of work-life balance options
  • ... and much more!

Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret level DoD security clearance.

Requisition ID: 43281

About Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university is known for its strong emphasis on scientific and technological research and its engineering programs. MIT was founded in 1861 and has a long history of innovation and entrepreneurship. The university has produced numerous Nobel laureates, Rhodes Scholars, and MacArthur Fellows.
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